Recaps

Brannew led the newly empowered Divine Punishment Squad on a mission to kill Blood Axe Morton, but their infiltration plan collapsed when the pirates spotted them. After the squad massacred the pirates, Morton nearly struck Brannew with a concealed Seastone cannon, but an unseen force deflected the shot, leaving Morton terrified and searching the night sky.

• Brannew briefed his nine squad members on Morton's arms deal and ordered them to follow an infiltration plan, but Rezo and the others pushed for a direct attack.
• A pirate lookout spotted the approaching Marines, so Brannew ordered a frontal assault focused on taking Morton's head.
• The ten recruits charged into the pirates and slaughtered nearly half of them in minutes, while the rest fled and the squad pursued them.
• Morton transformed into his bison form and charged Brannew with a battle-axe that concealed a Seastone cannon launcher.
• Morton fired a Haki-coated Seastone cannonball at Brannew, but an unseen force deflected it into a distant mountainside, and Morton shouted into the night demanding to know who was there.

Brannew killed Blood Axe Morton after Yas secretly deflected the cannonball that would have struck him. As the seventh squad faced annihilation, Yas refused to send reinforcements, but a torrent of magma suddenly engulfed the pirates.

• Yas deflected Morton's Seastone cannonball from dozens of nautical miles away, giving Brannew an opening to kill Morton with one punch.
• Brannew credited Yas with saving him and vowed not to disappoint him.
• Zephyr questioned Bullet about the intervention, but Bullet denied helping, and Zephyr realized Yas had acted from the Leviathan.
• The seventh squad reported that over five hundred pirates from the Long Spear Pirate Crew had ambushed them, and Zephyr ordered reinforcements.
• Yas refused to rescue the squad, insisting they must face despair, while the squad's captain fell protecting his comrades.
• Magma poured into the canyon and burned the pirates, as an unknown figure declared that Absolute Justice would eradicate all evil.

Sakazuki and Borsalino arrived after Squad Seven defeated a pirate detachment, then condemned the squad’s brutal methods as contrary to Marine justice. Yas challenged the two future Admirals to compete against his newly trained men in a hunt for Kurozumi Dom, with their transfer to his command as the prize if he won.

• Sakazuki and Borsalino emerged from the magma-filled battlefield and questioned Squad Seven about its black Tyrannosaurus flags.
• Sakazuki accused the surviving soldiers of enjoying violence, and the one-armed acting captain defended Yas’s teaching that all pirates deserved death.
• Yas spoke through the soldier’s Den Den Mushi, mocked Sakazuki and Borsalino as Zephyr’s students, and revealed that Kurozumi Dom’s main force was on Black Gold Island.
• Yas challenged Sakazuki and Borsalino to see who could bring back more pirate heads, wagering that they would transfer from Zephyr’s training camp to his command if he won.

Yas wagered that his recruits would kill more of Charcoal Dom’s pirates than Sakazuki and Borsalino before dawn, with the losers facing his terms. After the recruits wiped out Dom’s subordinate crews and presented their heads, Yas challenged Sakazuki and Borsalino to account for the thousands of pirates they had left on Black Gold Island.

• Yas challenged Sakazuki and Borsalino to a wager: whoever killed more of Charcoal Dom’s pirates before dawn would win, and the losers would face his conditions.
• Sakazuki accepted after Yas taunted his confidence, and he and Borsalino flew to Black Gold Island while Yas ordered the surviving seventh squad to join the first squad.
• Sakazuki and Borsalino attacked Black Gold Island, killing most of its pirates before fighting and killing Charcoal Dom.
• Brannew led the first squad and the surviving seventh squad through five pirate outposts, where they killed more than three thousand pirates in a single night.
• At dawn, Brannew and his squad arrived with piles of pirate heads, and Yas reminded Sakazuki and Borsalino that they had only killed Dom while thousands of his men on the island remained.

After Yas’s forces won the wager on Black Gold Island, Sakazuki and Borsalino were made to escort them to Demon Island, where Yas subjected the future Admirals to a brutal Devil’s Baptism. He then began baptizing tens of thousands of Marine recruits with destructive lightning, aiming to create Divine Punishment’s first Lightning Legion.

• Borsalino admitted that he and Sakazuki had lost the wager, and warned Sakazuki that Yas had used it to demonstrate a more effective and terrifying path to justice.
• Yas ordered Brannew and the others to return to Demon Island for a second stage of evolution, while Sakazuki and Borsalino were told to escort them.
• On Demon Island, Yas declared the two future Admirals reserve members of Divine Punishment and subjected them to ten minutes of black-and-red lightning, which left them unconscious but strengthened.
• Yas ordered the unconscious Sakazuki and Borsalino into a tenfold-gravity chamber, then addressed the tens of thousands of recruits gathered on the island.
• Using energy from the Leviathan, Yas unleashed a vast lightning storm over the recruits, declaring that they would either die or be reborn as Divine Punishment’s first Lightning Legion.

Golden Lion Shiki saw a newspaper report about Yas and the Divine Punishment Fleet and decided to attack them with the dangerous creatures he had raised. As his experimental island Calamity moved toward G-5, a sentry spotted it looming overhead.

• Shiki angrily read the newspaper praising Yas for recruiting Zephyr, Bullet, Sakazuki, and Borsalino, and vowed to crush his claim to usher in a new era.
• Shiki asked Dr. Indigo about the creatures he had developed, and Indigo reported that the latest Hellhounds and Wings of Destruction were more vicious than before.
• Shiki ordered Indigo to move the experimental island Calamity above G-5 and unleash its uncontrolled specimens on Yas's fleet.
• Calamity traveled through the clouds toward G-5 as its creatures roared across the island.
• A Marine sentry at G-5 saw the massive dark island descending and froze, unable to raise the alarm.

Golden Lion Shiki's monsters attacked the G-5 Branch, overwhelming Vergo and the Navy as the base fell into ruin. Yas refused to send help until the distress signal ended, then appeared before his recruits and prepared to demonstrate his power against the natural disaster.

• Vergo recognized Golden Lion Shiki's floating island and ordered the G-5 Branch to battle stations as monsters descended on the base.
• The monsters broke through the Navy's defenses, killing soldiers and destroying the G-5 Branch while Vergo requested reinforcements.
• Sakazuki and Borsalino asked Yas to let them fight, but Yas said the G-5 Branch's soldiers were not worth saving.
• The G-5 Branch's distress signal cut off as a nine-headed beast approached the command center, leaving the bridge crew in despair.
• Yas addressed his recruits from the Leviathan's bow and announced that he would show them how feeble a natural disaster was before a true god.

Yas erased every monster attacking G-5 Base with a vast ocean of purifying lightning, leaving the Marines unharmed. As the fleet reeled from his power, he launched himself toward Golden Lion's floating island to confront the one responsible for the monsters.

• Yas vanished from the fleet and appeared high above G-5 Base as the monsters turned their attention toward him.
• Yas snapped his fingers and summoned black-and-red thunderclouds that covered the island.
• Yas unleashed an ocean of lightning that erased every monster without harming the surviving Marines.
• Zephyr, Bullet, Borsalino, and Sakazuki watched in horror, and Sakazuki questioned the justice and strength he had believed in.
• Yas used Geppo to rocket toward Golden Lion's floating island, intending to deal with the one sending the monsters.

Yas shot into the sky using Geppo to confront Golden Lion Shiki on Merveille, while the Marines and recruits below watched in awe. Shiki ordered his fleet to fire on Yas, but a black-and-red lightning layer appeared around him just before the barrage struck.

• Bullet and Zephyr watched Yas ascend and realized he was going alone to judge Golden Lion Shiki.
• Sakazuki questioned his idea of Absolute Justice, while Borsalino remarked that Yas seemed inhuman.
• The Divine Punishment recruits cheered for Yas and embraced their role as his followers.
• Yas used Geppo to soar through the sky and found Merveille and Golden Lion Shiki.
• Shiki mocked Yas and ordered the fleets surrounding Merveille to fire thousands of cannonballs at him.
• A thin layer of black-and-red lightning appeared around Yas just before the cannon barrage hit.

Yas overwhelmed Golden Lion Shiki's attacks, destroying the floating islands Shiki hurled at him and leaving the pirate stunned. Shiki then charged with his signature sword technique, while Yas prepared to stop it with a finger charged with black-and-red electricity.

• Yas's black-and-red energy erased Golden Lion Shiki's barrage of shells, prompting Shiki to recognize him as a serious threat.
• Golden Lion Shiki unleashed his Conqueror's Haki and used the Float-Float Fruit to surround Yas with floating islands.
• Yas destroyed a mountain-sized island with one punch, then dismantled dozens more with bare-handed strikes as the Divine Punishment fleet watched.
• Yas taunted Shiki for being too slow and weak, driving the pirate into a rage.
• Golden Lion Shiki attacked with Lion's Might: Thousand-Cut Valley, and Yas faced the strike without dodging, extending a finger charged with black-and-red electricity.

Yas overwhelmed Golden Lion Shiki with powers that erased his sword slashes, scattered his seawater lions, and trapped him in a vast lightning web. Yas launched Thunder Burial at Shiki, ending the battle with a lethal storm of lightning spears.

• Yas used Black Coffin to swallow and destroy Shiki’s sword slashes, shocking Shiki with an unfamiliar power.
• Shiki raised seawater from across the ocean and shaped it into hundreds of giant lions to attack Yas.
• Yas unleashed Super Shinra Tensei, dispersing the seawater lions and blasting Shiki backward, leaving him injured.
• Yas spread a vast web of black-and-red lightning around Shiki and pursued him with lightning serpents when he tried to escape.
• Yas activated Thunder Burial, sending millions of lightning spears converging on Shiki.

Yas defeated Golden Lion Shiki’s desperate final charge with One-Finger Nukite, shattering the swords that served as his prosthetic legs. Shiki’s weapons broke apart in the sky, leaving his fate unresolved.

• Yas’s Thunder Burial overwhelmed Golden Lion Shiki and left him badly burned and near death.
• Golden Lion Shiki refused to accept defeat and launched a final Float-Float Fruit: Lion Rush attack with Sakura Ten and Kogarashi.
• Yas met Shiki’s charge with One-Finger Nukite, stopping both swords before they reached his chest.
• Yas’s fingertip cracked and shattered Sakura Ten and Kogarashi into metal fragments.

Yas crippled Golden Lion Shiki and destroyed the energy nodes keeping Merveille afloat, sending the continent plunging toward the sea. Shiki survived the fall and launched one final attack on Yas, whose Lightning Armor had begun to solidify.

• Yas shattered Shiki’s swords and used destructive energy to cripple his legs, leaving him unable to stand.
• Shiki lost control of the Float-Float Fruit and fell from the sky as Yas turned toward Merveille.
• Yas fired Five-Finger Nukite: Star Collapse at Merveille’s five pseudo-floating cores and destroyed them.
• Merveille began falling toward the sea, while surviving pirates cried out in despair.
• Shiki survived on a small floating island, crawled toward Yas, and attacked him with Haki-coated fists.
• Yas stood still as the black-and-red lightning around him formed into a more solid Lightning Armor.

Yas erased Golden Lion Shiki, then halted the collapsing continent of Merveille before it could trigger a catastrophic tsunami. The chapter ended with Zephyr and the others watching Yas apparently stop the falling landmass with his raised hands.

• Golden Lion Shiki struck Yas with his remaining strength, but Yas's lightning armor absorbed the attack and erased Shiki from existence.
• Yas turned toward the collapsing Merveille and prepared to erase the continent and the pirates on it.
• Zephyr warned Yas that Merveille's fall would unleash a tsunami that could kill millions and devastate nearby islands.
• Yas decided the sea would not be Merveille's resting place and thrust his hands upward.
• Zephyr, Sakazuki, Borsalino, and the others watched as the falling continent stopped in midair.

Yas stopped the floating continent of Merveille from crushing the G-5 Branch, then pulverized it into dust with gravity. As the world watched in shock, Sengoku learned that Morgans had broadcast the event everywhere, setting off a global crisis.

• Yas halted Merveille less than a thousand meters above the sea, saving the surviving Marines at G-5, including Vergo.
• Yas compressed Merveille with gravity until the continent crumbled into dust and vanished into the sea.
• Whitebeard, Garp, and Sengoku watched the feat in stunned silence.
• A senior intelligence officer told Sengoku that Morgans had broadcast Yas's actions to the entire world.

After Yas defeated Golden Lion Shiki, Morgans’s newspaper made his power famous around the world, alarming the World Government and changing how the Marines viewed him. The chapter ended with Fleet Admiral Kong ordering Yas to return to Marine Headquarters immediately.

• News Coos spread Morgans’s report showing Yas shattering Shiki’s swords and holding up the falling continent of Merveille.
• Shanks and his crew read the report, and Shanks wondered whether Yas was the monster Roger had foreseen and called him a form of justice pirates could never defeat.
• The Five Elders discussed Yas’s growing public support, ordered his file classified and his bounties revoked, and decided to use his reputation while secretly advancing a plan to create controllable power.
• Aboard the Leviathan, the Divine Punishment recruits worshipped Yas, while Borsalino questioned Sakazuki about Yas’s justice and Sakazuki wondered if it represented the ultimate Absolute Justice.
• Marine Headquarters contacted Yas with an urgent order from Fleet Admiral Kong to return to Marineford immediately.

Fleet Admiral Kong confronted Yas over the destruction caused by his battle with Golden Lion Shiki and his disregard for Navy comrades, then announced his exceptional promotion to Admiral Candidate. The chapter ended with Sengoku asking Yas to choose an official code name.

• Kong criticized Yas for destroying Merveille, failing to save the G-5 soldiers, and revealing his overwhelming power to the world.
• Yas defended his actions, dismissing the pirates and soldiers as weak and saying that being feared was better than being ignored.
• Garp defended Yas's results, while Sengoku scolded Garp for undermining Navy discipline.
• Yas turned to leave, but Kong stopped him and explained that the Navy needed his strength while fearing his unchecked power.
• Kong announced that the World Government and Marine Headquarters had promoted Yas to Admiral Candidate.
• Sengoku told Yas that he still needed an official code name and asked what name he wanted.

Yas chose the codename “Azure Thunder,” which Fleet Admiral Kong officially approved and ordered announced. Granted a month of leave, Yas decided to return to East Blue to visit the couple who had given him a home.

• Sengoku and Garp argued over possible codenames for Yas, but Yas dismissed their suggestions as too loud.
• Yas chose “Azure Thunder,” and Kong signed the codename into the official document and ordered it announced to the world.
• Kong granted Yas one month of leave in recognition of his service and battles.
• Yas said he would go to East Blue, remembering the village and the couple he had left nearly ten years earlier.

Yas returned to Foosha Village after ten years away, reuniting with his parents and learning that pirates and corrupt Marines had been terrorizing the East Blue. He vowed to eliminate every pirate in the sea.

• Yas's Marine warship encountered the Fang Pirate Crew, and Yas killed its members with a single terrifying glance.
• Yas arrived in Foosha Village and returned to his parents' home, where they shared a meal together.
• Yas's parents told him that Buggy had recently threatened the village and that Arlong and Captain Nezumi were oppressing Cocoyasi Village.
• Yas promised his parents that he would leave no pirates in the East Blue.

Yas used his Observation Haki and Azure Thunder to erase every pirate in the East Blue, including Buggy, Arlong, Don Krieg, and Kuro. He then sensed Gol D. Roger in Loguetown and set out to confront him.

• Yas detected 314 pirate bases and 9,762 pirates across the East Blue and unleashed his Azure Thunder judgment.
• Buggy and his crew were reduced to ash in Orange Town, and Buggy was killed as he tried to escape.
• Arlong, Captain Nezumi, and the Fish-Men under Arlong's command were erased in Cocoyasi Village.
• The same attack destroyed the Krieg Pirates, Kuro's Black Cat Pirates, and every other pirate gang in the East Blue.
• After sensing Gol D. Roger's powerful Conqueror's Haki in Loguetown, Yas flew toward the town to confront him.

Yas met the dying Pirate King Gol D. Roger in a Loguetown tavern, where Roger questioned his power and motives. Roger pressed Yas to reveal what he was truly waiting for.

• Roger and Silvers Rayleigh waited in a Loguetown tavern for Yas, whom Roger wanted to meet before visiting his Marine friends.
• Yas entered the tavern, and his overwhelming presence frightened everyone as he approached Roger’s table.
• Roger greeted Yas and asked whether he could see that Roger was nearly finished; Yas noticed Roger’s fatal illness.
• Roger said he had sensed the ripples from Yas’s erasure of the East Blue pirates and remarked that such power made him jealous.
• Roger coughed blood, then challenged Yas to explain what he feared and what he was truly waiting for.

Yas rejected Roger’s vision of freedom and declared that his justice served only himself, while promising to purge the World Government and Celestial Dragons after dealing with pirates. Roger challenged Yas to wager whether the next era would choose freedom or submit to order.

• Roger asked Yas what he was waiting for, and Yas said he created order and purified those he judged evil.
• Roger explained that he had started the Great Pirate Era to shatter the old order and create possibilities for a new world.
• Yas condemned Roger’s era as an excuse for pirates to inflict suffering and called him a selfish madman.
• Rayleigh attacked Yas with Conqueror’s Haki after Yas insulted Roger, but Yas’s force field nullified it and Roger told Rayleigh to sit down.
• Roger questioned whose interests Yas’s justice protected, and Yas answered that he protected himself and would eventually clean out the World Government and Celestial Dragons.
• Roger challenged Yas to wager whether the next era would choose Roger’s freedom or Yas’s order.

Yas rejected Roger’s wager and declared that their ideals could only be settled through strength. Roger unleashed his final Conqueror’s Haki, but Yas’s overwhelming Haki split the sky and began to suppress him as Yas prepared to end the confrontation.

• Yas dismissed Roger’s wager, saying Roger had no right to stake the future of a new era.
• Roger decided words were useless and unleashed his remaining life force in a final burst of Conqueror’s Haki.
• Roger’s Haki destroyed the tavern, knocked out the civilians, and shook Loguetown as black clouds gathered overhead.
• Yas released his own Haki and met Roger’s force above the tavern’s ruins, splitting the sky between them.
• Roger realized Yas’s Haki was suppressing and devouring his own as blood escaped his mouth.
• Yas called the clash a farce and slowly raised one finger toward Roger.

Yas effortlessly erased Roger’s Haki and the rift in the sky, leaving Roger physically and spiritually broken. As Rayleigh helped him flee, Roger declared that Yas was the rules of the world in human form and urged the survivors to unite and kill him.

• Yas swept one finger across the sky, erasing Roger’s Haki and sealing the rift.
• Roger collapsed, and Yas dismissed him and Rayleigh before vanishing.
• Rayleigh supported the devastated Roger, who admitted they had been wrong from the beginning.
• Roger warned Rayleigh that Yas was the rules themselves wearing human skin and that their era was over.
• Roger ordered Rayleigh to find Whitebeard and the other survivors and unite them to kill Yas before he enslaved everyone.

After killing Roger in Loguetown, Yas returned to his warship and headed for the New World. The Underworld placed an S-rank bounty on him, and Yas ordered the ship onward to confront those responsible.

• Yas returned to his warship after Roger's final roar and ordered the crew to turn toward the New World.
• At Marine Headquarters, Kong, Sengoku, and Garp learned of the strange celestial phenomenon over Loguetown, and Garp sensed that Roger had died there after meeting Yas.
• A Five Elder told Sengoku that Morgans and the Underworld had issued their highest-level wanted notice for Yas.
• Yas's crew received a newspaper announcing an S-rank bounty on him, with a divine position as the reward for taking his head.
• Yas rejected the major's suggestion to request support and ordered the ship to sail at full speed toward the Underworld.